I finally figured this out. I'll put two dual gig "mezzanine" cards in the blade of question. Also put 4 of the 16 port pass thru cards.
That gives me the six ports for vm. Now if I can just finagle the esx enterprise license to go with the freebie blade. Thanks everyone for the info. dave From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:mbull...@root9.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 10:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics The built-in network ports are just pass-thru ports, not switches and are tied to their respective blade - A1 port 1 and A2 port 1 are tied to blade 1. I have an M600 with 4 additional Cisco 3032 20 port switches (16 internal and 4 external). The Cisco's give each blade 4 additional NIC's, two are used for VM's and two are used for VMotion. The built-in Dell ports are used for iSCSI. -mb From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 6:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics The Dell M600 has slots for pass thru switches and a full blown Cisco switch. The M600 we have came with two 16 port pass thru switches. Two for each blade slot. I think I might be able to "borrow" a couple of them for this. I don't need FC I have two equalogic iscsi's hanging off this. I have a call into my Dell tech rep. I should know my options later. Amazing when one part of something is free and to make that work gets complicated/expensive in a hurry. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 7:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics That's the story on our end as well. I was wondering if he really was aiming for 10 ports, and didn't need FC, etc... -sc From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics I can only speak about the specifics of our blade hardware, but HP has a mezzanine ethernet card that adds 4 NICs. With the 2 onboard the blade itself, that brings it up to 6. In our particular case, that matches up nicely (no accident) with the number of integrated switches you can put in the chassis. What we have in our chassis are 6 x ethernet switch and 2 x fibre channel switch, coordinating with 2 x onboard ethernet + 4 x mezzanine ethernet and 2 x mezzanine HBA. ________________________________ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 7:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics How many can you add? Our HP's are limited in what you can put in mezzanine slots, especially if you are gonna need FC ports, etc... -sc From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 3:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics Since nothing is really OT on this list here goes. I have a Dell blade center M600 that a free 32 gig blade is falling into my hands and I would like to make it my 4th esx server. My other three are all 2950's with 10 nics in them(overkill I know). The blade center uses two nics per server. Any recommendations on adding extra nics for Console, Vmotion, iscsi and network? dave This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately via e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake; then, delete this e-mail from your system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
